Home-service contractors in New York

New York's largest trade by record count is other home service, and it is dominant rather than merely first: more than a quarter of every home-service record this site holds for New York sits in that one trade, with landscaping the next largest. A concentrated mix like this usually says more about how the source data categorises a business than about how New York homeowners spend.

In order, New York's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, HVAC and electrical. Other home service alone account for half of every record on this page, which is a narrow base for a statewide figure.

Every one of the eleven trades this site counts carries at least one record in New York, which is not true of every state. The smallest of them here is pool, and a small row is a small row: it is not evidence that New York is short of that trade, only that few businesses in it were categorised that way.

At the other end of the same ordering, New York's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of New York, so most of their metro hub pages clear this site's publish floor and publish.

Electrical takes a larger share of New York's records than it takes nationally, which is the clearest way New York's trade mix departs from the country's. The gap is real but ordinary and would not survive being called a trend.

Pool is thinner in New York than it is nationally, the mirror of the lean above. Read it as a difference in how businesses here are categorised before reading it as a difference in what they do.

Per resident, New York carries fewer home-service records than the country does, among the ten thinnest of the fifty-one this site counts. A thinner state usually means fewer competing quotes in the smaller markets and, in a busy season, a longer wait.

By raw record count New York is one of the five largest states in this corpus, so its pages carry more names than most and its metro hubs page further.

New York's split between independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records is close to the national one, so the chain mix on this page is typical rather than distinctive.

Fewer of New York's records are missing a street address than the national average, so New York's lists are better addressed than the country's.

Almost none of New York's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts on this page describe nearly the whole state rather than most of it. Pool holds what little of the review bucket New York has.

Read per resident rather than by count, the ordering does not change at the top: other home service is both the largest trade in New York and the one with the most records per ten thousand residents, and pool has the fewest.

Roofing is the one New York trade in which every record is already classified as independent, franchise brand or corporate owned, with none left in review. The other rows on this page carry at least one name the chain rule has not finished with.

Over the last twelve months New York records first appearing and records flagged closed were close to level, so the file for this state held its size; the movement that did happen was concentrated in cleaning on the way in and roofing on the way out.

Cleaning, Flooring, Landscaping, Other home service, Painting, Pest control and Pool carry no Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation in the extract loaded here, so those New York rows have no employment or wage series to sit beside them. Every other New York row does, by metropolitan area rather than statewide.

The metro fact pages New York owns are New York-Newark-Jersey City, Buffalo-Cheektowaga, Rochester and Albany-Schenectady-Troy, and 4 more. Each carries the same counts for one trade in one metro area, and a metro that crosses a state line is listed under the state its name leads with, not under every state it touches.

Ordered by records per resident, New York sits between Oklahoma above it and Alabama below it. Those two are the states this page's per-resident rate is closest to, and they are named because a rank on its own says less than the company it keeps.

Ordered by total records rather than by rate, New York's neighbours are Texas and Pennsylvania. A state can sit high on one of these two orderings and low on the other, and reading both is the point of naming them.

New York's franchise-brand and corporate-owned records are close to even in number. The franchised ones concentrate in painting and the corporate-owned ones in pest control, which is a difference the statewide split above hides.

Within New York, electrical is the most independently held trade and pest control the least. That gap is the reason the statewide independent share is a summary rather than a description: a homeowner hiring in pest control meets a different market from one hiring in electrical.

Other home service is the New York trade whose records most often carry no street address, and electrical the one whose records most often do. A missing street line usually means the business runs from a home, so the list on an other home service page in New York is thinner in addresses than an electrical one and no less real for it.

New York is outside the verified-licence layer, so no New York row above carries a licensed share and no New York profile carries a licence fact. The counts are still measured; what is absent is the join between them and a licence file, which is why the licensed-share row reads as not published rather than as zero.

Until that changes, New York Department of State, Division of Licensing Services is where a New York licence is checked and New York Attorney General, Consumer Frauds Bureau is where a New York homeowner takes a dispute. This site takes no complaints about a New York contractor and resolves none.

Taking the largest row on its own: other home service is about as large a part of New York as it is of the country, so New York leads with that trade for the same reason the country does.